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It may require your email address in exchange, but Jerzy Drozd is offering a fairly comprehensive PDF on how to set up a bass guitar, complete with cut-out templates and great illustrations showing exactly how you should set everything up. This type of maintenance work can baffle a lot of new and intermediate players, so it’s a good idea to… Read more →

Before getting into the usual material, note that the Friday night jazz music at Maria’s Pizza will never be the same following the untimely passing of Claude Sifferlen. He was a truly talented pianist and a fixture at many of the finest venues around town. He will be missed. Is Radio Radio busy this weekend? Sure is. Roman Candle and… Read more →

The new IMN Podcast is up – download it or listen at the site or on WFYI HD2, Thursdays at 4pm. And maybe 10pm, depending on WFYI’s programming needs. Unfortunately, WOXY doesn’t seem to be faring as well, and that’s a damn shame. Now that the Internet has made just about every kind of music available at a moment’s notice,… Read more →

I’m mostly writing this so I don’t forget about the name of the manufacturer soon – a bass-playing friend of mine mentioned buying and enjoying one, sent me the website, and I promptly forgot about it. So, once it’s up here, I’ll have a reference point. The sound samples posted on the Ergo Instruments sites intrigued me – it’s not… Read more →

Radio Radio plays it quiet until Sunday, when they bring in the acoustic stylings of Tyrone Wells and Tony Lucca. The Vollrath celebrates the CD release of Brad Real, along with Twin Monster, the Dirty Thirty, and Scott Dubs tonight. Tomorrow, you can take in Straight White Lines, Jascha, and John Davey. The newest addition to Fountain Square, the White… Read more →

The new IMN podcast is up. Download it or listen at the site or on WFYI H2, Thursdays at 4pm. The Gibson Thunderbird in the image comes from an Austin pawn shop that regularly rolls out the good stuff when the SXSW folks come into town. It’s a great-looking instrument, and I certainly hope that’s not where they’re keeping it… Read more →

. . . if you’re in the market for a bass from Warrant’s Jerry Dixon, I suppose. If there’s one thing eBay has given us, it’s the prevalence of celebrity auctions. I’m only mentioning this one because it’s a bass guitar and because a portion of the proceeds go to the Humane Society of the United States, according to the… Read more →

The new IMN podcast is up – download it or listen at the site or on WFYI HD2, Thursdays at 4pm. The laptop may not be making as many appearances onstage as it used to with the Psychonauts, but I’m intrigued by this Mobius looping software. Super easy to install and set up, and it’s free to boot. Between it… Read more →

And it goes beyond the gratuitous use of clip art in the source article. 40% of UK folks surveyed can’t name a legal music download site. The tagline about only knowing about Amazon and iTunes doesn’t bother me too much – people have resources to get on those services with little effort, so your recordings can be in the same… Read more →